Personal Retreats
Personal Retreats-2026
Flexible Dates
We are open to individual guests. We welcome you to create your personal retreat in the simple, and concentrated atmosphere of our monastic Zen Practice Center. We are taking retreat reservations between four nights and three months in length.
Dark Sky Retreat
Flexible Dates
Immerse yourself in the silence and wonder of Colorado's pristine Dark Sky. This all-inclusive retreat at Crestone Mountain Zen Center offers celestial bathing, stargazing equipment, organic meals, private accommodations, hiking trails, and space to reconnect beneath the Milky Way.
Digital Detox Retreat
Flexible Dates
Step away from the constant pull of screens, notifications, and endless distraction, and enter a space of quiet presence at Crestone Mountain Zen Center. Surrounded by mountains, open skies, and deep silence, our Digital Detox Retreat offers an opportunity to reconnect with what is essential.
Transition Retreat
Flexible Dates
THE MOMENT BETWEEN WHAT WAS AND WHAT WILL BE. For people ready to discover what is next in life. Sometimes it takes a journey to feel at home within yourself again. "Like a tree in a storm, we can learn to bend without losing our roots." —Tatsudo Baden Roshi Find clarity beyond the noise. Step […]
Artist Residency Retreat
Flexible Dates
A self-directed creative retreat in the Colorado mountains for writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and makers. Quiet accommodations, dedicated workspace, nourishing meals, meditation, and nature provide the space to create without distraction.
Contemplative & Silent Retreat
Flexible Dates
Experience a self-guided silent meditation retreat at a Zen monastery in Colorado. Practice in total silence with access to the Zendo, private accommodations, organic meals, Buddhist teachings, and the spaciousness of mountain nature.
Create your own Path Retreat
Flexible Dates
NO PACKAGES. NO SCHEDULE. JUST BE. You know what you need. We have the pieces. Mix them. Everything goes, nothing is forced—in the midst of Heaven & Earth. "The path to becoming is being. You have to be in order to become." —Tatsudo Baden Roshi Forget prepackaged retreats. Choose your focus, choose add-ons, choose just […]